1911 in poetry

Events

• c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poets
• c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned for six days
• December 16 – The Copyright Act in the United Kingdom consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries in each of which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library ; the Bodleian Library ; the Advocates Library ; the National Library of Wales ; Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library

  Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• J. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics
• Arthur Stringer, Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
• G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
• Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse
• E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre
• Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy
• John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
• Harold Monro, Before Dawn
• Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno
• Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
• Katharine Tynan, New Poems
• Anna Wickham, Songs of John Oland

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Franklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on Parnassus
• Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
• George Sterling, The House of Orchids
• Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy

  Other in English

• Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia
• J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt,, published in New York and London this year

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, Paris: Deplanche; his first book of poetry
• Paul Claudel:
• * L'Otage, France
• * Chemin de Croix
• Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrède
• Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes, three volumes, published from this year to 1912
• Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments
• Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France
• May Ziadeh, writing as Isis Copia, Fleurs de rêve, Lebanese-Palestinian poet writing in French

  Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

• Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet:
• * Golap Guccha
• * Sisu Mangal
• * Apurba Naibedya
• Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form
• S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language
• Tirupati Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales

  Other languages

• Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, Greece
• José María Eguren, Simbólicas,, Peru
• Georg Heym, Der Krieg and Der ewige Tag, Germany
• Else Lasker-Schüler, Meine Wunder, Germany

  Awards and honors

United States">American poetry">United States

• American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist

  Births

• January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet
• February 1 – Robert Gittings, English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
• February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
• February 13 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian, Urdu-language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster
• February 16 – Hal Porter, Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
• February 28 – Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet styled a national hero
• March 1 – Ian Mudie, Australian
• April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin, French novelist and poet
• May 2 – Ben Belitt, American poet
• May 13 – N. V. Krishna Warrier, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, critic and scholar who introduces new types of long narrative poems and satires; editor of weekly Mathrubhumi; director of Kerala Bhasa Institute
• May 29 – Leah Goldberg, Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
• June 11 – Josephine Miles, American poet and literary critic
• June 17 – Allen Curnow, New Zealand poet
• June 20 – Sufia Kamal, Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
• June 28 – Clem Christesen, Australian poet, founding editor of Meanjin
• June 30 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
• July 12 – Umashankar Joshi, Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic
• July 19 – Mervyn Peake, writer, artist, illustrator and poet
• August 25 – J. V. Cunningham, American poet, literary critic and teacher
• September 3 – Ernst Meister, German
• September 9
• * Paul Goodman, American poet
• * Ale Ahmad Suroor, Indian Urdu-language poet
• October 11 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
• October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla , Albanian poet and writer
• October 26 – Sorley Maclean, Scottish poet
• October 28 – Patrice de La Tour du Pin, French
• November 2 – Odysseus Elytis, Greek
• November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• November 23 – William Hart-Smith, Australian
• December 13 – Kenneth Patchen American poet and novelist
• Also:
• * Robert Clark, Indian-born Australian
• * Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• * Samsher Bahadur Singh, Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist
• * Tenneti Suri, Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist

  Deaths

• February 22 - Frances Harper, African-American abolitionist, poet and author
• April 11 - Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, English civil servant, literary historian and poet
• May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, English comic poet and librettist
• July 16 - Amelia Denis de Icaza, Panamanian romantic poet in Nicaragua
• August 7 - Elizabeth Akers Allen, American author, journalist and poet
• December 29 - Rosamund Marriott Watson, writing as Graham R. Tomson, English poet
• Also:
• * Jwala Prasad Barq, Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator
• * Eknath Ganesh Bhandare, Indian, Marathi-language poet, translator and station-master
• * Abdul Ahad Nadim, Indian, Urdu-language poet, writer of "nats" in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun"